Akoranga Tuarua - DFI

Kia Ora Koutou Katoa.

WOW! What can I say! Today, Thursday 14th May 2020, we had our second session on digital fluency with Manaiakalani. The session today was based around managing workflow. Very excited to see what this session had to hold as I am always interested in gaining new knowledge and tips to better manage my workflow.

The Manaiakalani team covered a variety of work related google extensions to assist with managing our workflow.

The PD/Tutorials that I was most interested in was the Google Keep app extension. I had no idea what it was about prior to the tutorial itself. It was interesting to know that you could easily take a photo of your written work, or a text from a book and the app will automatically format and adjust the image to a text form on the document. Im looking forward to using this app to collate all my notes I have from meetings and our discussions in the classroom.

Another PD/Tutorial I liked was the Taming Tabs tutorial. So many times when doing work on my laptop, I have a whole bunch of tabs opened. In this tutorial/PD Gerhard showed us the many ways you can organize your tabs. The tips that I have saved and will be actively using are as follows :
Pressing: ctrl-(number of the tab you are wanting) = that tab will appear.
Pinning your Tab, by right clicking your tab and pressing pin, will shrink your tab to the icon only.
I am be looking forward to trialing the following apps over the next few weeks to see which one better suits my style or work:

• One Tab- temporarily close down all the open tabs and the create a list of tabs where you can revisit, restore and/or remove.
• Great Suspender- Will put your tabs to sleep and reopen on request.
• Tab Snooze- Allows you to snooze your tab and add a reminder to when you would like tab to pop up again.
• Toby Mini- Organizing your tabs and creating store sessions to make the collection of tabs easily accessible.

The 'creating' task that had been set out for us today. Was to:

1. In pairs, host and record a Meet conversation where you each reflect on your chosen blog post using the prompt and blog post on slide 1. Use screen share via Present Now  to show the group your post as you talk them through it.
2. Select a blog post from one of the Manaiakalani Mail Outs linked  to discuss with your group. (Preferably select a child’s blog from the ‘Learners Learning’ section)

Questions and thoughts to drive your conversation: 

1. What was the teaching design behind this post?
2. What was the learner’s response ie the post content
3. Who responded to the post and how did this support the learning experience or contribute more to the learning of the child?

Here is a screenshot of my recording: Arohamai due to some online difficulties, the recording had a lot of glitches.

Looking forward to our next session!